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Torregrossa, Jacopo, Andreou, Maria ORCID: 0000-0002-7867-3163, Bongartz, Christiane and Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria (2021). Bilingual acquisition of reference: The role of language experience, executive functions and cross-linguistic effects. Biling.-Lang. Cogn., 24 (4). S. 694 - 707. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1469-1841

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Abstract

The present study aims to understand which factors contribute to different patterns of use of referring expressions by bilingual children, by considering the triangulation between language experience and proficiency, executive functions and cross-linguistic effects. We analyze reference use in Greek in the context of a narrative elicitation task as performed by 125 children of different language combinations, including Greek-Albanian, Greek-English and Greek-German. We calculate, for each child, an index of language experience that combines a proficiency measure with background questionnaire information. After identifying the occurrences of underinformative (underspecified) and overinformative (overspecified) referring expressions in the production of each child, we investigate to what extent each pattern of reference use is affected by language experience, cross-linguistic effects and executive functions. The study aims to shed some new light on the nature of overspecification and underspecification in bilingual reference production and, more in general, to model variation in reference use among bilingual children.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Torregrossa, Jacopo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Andreou, Maria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7867-3163 UNSPECIFIED Bongartz, Christiane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-579458
DOI:	10.1017/S1366728920000826
Journal or Publication Title:	Biling.-Lang. Cogn.
Volume:	24
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 694 - 707
Date:	2021
Publisher:	CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1469-1841
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WORKING-MEMORY; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; ENGLISH; VOCABULARY; EXPOSURE; SPEAKERS; SPANISH; SYNTAX; REALIZATION Multiple languages Linguistics; Psychology, Experimental Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57945